Grant Purdue

Grant Purdue (1925-) was a New Orleans appliance store owner.

Biography
Grant Purdue was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1925, and he became the owner of a chain of appliance stores, headquartered in Southdowns. Purdue was dragged into a black market scheme by allowing for Marcano crime family smuggler Artie Higgins to hijack one of his trucks for insurance money, and Higgins would repeatedly hijack Purdue's trucks, annoying the powerless Purdue. Near bankrupt and in fear of being arrested, Purdue turned to Lincoln Clay and supplied him with information that would help him with bringing down Higgins and his racket.